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Plus ideas for games kids can play on nature trips

Sometimes our kids are not so interested in walks that they forget to look at what’s around them. Just because their parents love birdwatching and soaking up nature doesn’t mean they feel the same way, and sometimes they come right out and say that birding is boring!

Their mood only improves when the first hare scampers across the path or they get a glimpse of a roe deer. Yet when they were small, birds were still an important part of their lives. They could tell the difference between a Eurasian blue tit, a blackbird, and a robin almost before they learned to talk.

Judy Wu about Bird Sounds

Judy Wu learned to look by listening. The musician and producer from Taiwan has won multiple music awards for her bird sounds. Despite her tremendous success, her interest in nature was actually rather slow to develop

and stemmed from the artist’s fascination with sounds. In the meantime, Judy is also interested in the details of flora and fauna, which she uses her visual sensory to take in.

Created in 1969, today the national park covers 50,720 ha and is the largest nature reserve in Western Europe. The diversity in biotopes is as varied as Doñana is large. Secluded beaches, huge flood plains, lagoons, wandering dunes, extensive forests of pine and spruce, and expansive heaths make it a safe place for migratory birds to rest and spend the winter. It is a unique breeding ground for endangered birds such as marbled ducks, white-headed ducks and rare mammals like the Iberian lynx.

People are only granted access to a very few areas in the national park. One of the finest experiences is to go on one of the rare four to seven-hour-long jeep tours of the park. These tours start from the El Acebuche visitor centre. From here you can start to explore the park's open countryside and small lagoons on short trails.